Vice President Kamala Harris declared herself the Democrat Party’s presumptive presidential nominee on Monday night after the majority of the party’s delegates indicated that they would flip from President Joe Biden to her.

Harris’ announcement comes roughly 36 hours after Biden announced that he was dropping out of the presidential race because Democrats were concerned that he would lose to former President Donald Trump.

“When I announced my campaign for President, I said I intended to go out and earn this nomination,” Harris said. “Tonight, I am proud to have secured the broad support needed to become our party’s nominee, and as a daughter of California, I am proud that my home state’s delegation helped put our campaign over the top.”

“I look forward to formally accepting the nomination soon,” she continued.”I am grateful to President Biden and everyone in the Democratic Party who has already put their faith in me, and I look forward to taking our case directly to the American people.”

Tonight, I am proud to have earned the support needed to become our party’s nominee.

Over the next few months, I’ll be traveling across the country talking to Americans about everything on the line. I fully intend to unite our party and our nation, and defeat Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/Bsq3N6pMAi

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) July 23, 2024

A tally from the Associated Press found that Harris has secured at least 2,668 delegates, none of whom are legally bound to vote for her, who have pledged to vote for her when they meet during the first week in August. Harris only needed 1,976 delegates to become the party’s nominee.

The 59-year-old Californian has never earned a single vote from Democrat primary voters in a presidential primary after dropping out of the party’s 2020 primary before voting even started.

Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough delegates to officially become the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee when the delegates cast their votes next month.

Harris, who was forced to quit her 2020 presidential campaign before the voting started, will likely become the party’s nominee without ever having earned a single vote from Democrat voters.

The Associated Press reported that Harris had secured the backing of more than the 1,976 delegates, the number that she would need to reach to win the nomination.

Harris only launched her campaign on Sunday after President Joe Biden announced that he was ending his failing re-election campaign as he continued to fall further behind former President Donald Trump in the polls.

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Delegates, none of whom are bound to Harris, will cast their votes during the first week of August to make the nomination official.

Harris addressed her campaign on Monday after Biden turned it over to her and claimed that she was going to do everything she could to unite the Democrat Party.

“As many of you know, before I was elected as vice president, before I was elected as United States senator, I was the elected attorney general, as I’ve mentioned, of California, and before that I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris said. “Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own game. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type.”

Biden called into the meeting that Harris attended and said that he was going to be hitting the campaign trail for her as he continues to serve as president despite widespread calls for him to resign from office over serious concerns over his mental fitness.

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